On Thursday October 08 2020 20:26, you wrote to me:
MV>> The host part reflects your node number, but unlike the MV>> unofficial convention for f1d0 mumbers it is in hex instead of in MV>> decimal. Any comment?
DG> Yup, an IPv6 address is a hexadecimal address -
An IPv6 address is a 128 bit number. Usually (but not always) represented to the human by up to eight colon seperated groups of up to four hexadicimal digits.
DG> and mailers and tossers semi-think in hex, so it seemed fitting to me.
If mailers and tossers think at all, which is questionable, they think in nodenumbers, which are almost always represented to the human in decimal.
f1d0 is "hex speak", directed at the human, not the machine.
Anyway, you are breaking the convention and that can be confusing. In your case it is clear because there is an "alfa digit" in one of the hex number groups, but there are plenty of hex numbers that only have the digits 0-9. How is the reader going to know if it is hex or decimal?
